The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission issued an order yesterday to Rogers Communications giving the internet provider until September 27 to formulate a plan to cease throttling online games such as World of Warcraft, reports the Calgary Herald. Noting that Rogers own traffic management policy states that "online games, such as World of Warcraft, should not be throttled or slowed down, and would only be affected if Rogers misclassifies the games and other peer-to-peer applications were running at the same time." For its part, Rogers states it has corrected the issue with World of Warcraft and is "not aware of any problems with any other online games." Thanks Ant via Slashdot.

Tanto Edge wrote on Sep 17, 2011, 14:58:The comments from Americans regarding our coverage are funny to me given there is a severe lack of coverage in many parts of the USA.

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A big part of that is what our wonderful US phone companies have done. They've taken hundreds of billions in grant money, tax breaks, etc and promised decades ago that by the year 2010 that everyone in the USA would have big fat broadband pipes if only we would give them some money and stop regulating and examining their books. Oh and they promised to replace all copper wiring with optical. We did and they didn't deliver, they instead just gobbled the money and didn't do crap with it. Meanwhile the phone companies have been merging to create a couple large monopolies again, which is ironic since bell/AT&T was originally broken up from a monopoly.